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The FSA says proposals to collect extra sales data from advice firms are not part of wider plans to effectively control how much they charge for their services.

The FSA has for the first time made public its damning indictments of an IFA and an insurance broker who it banned for acting without integrity before a final decision has been made on the cases.

If a courier loses a set of completed CII exam papers, whose fault is it: the CII's or the courier's?

IFAs have been warned of sales practices by some providers of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS) who are wrongly telling advisers they must recommend their products to remain independent.

The FSA may use the extra data it plans to collect from adviser firms to control the price of advice post-2012, Alan Lakey says.

The FSA will use new rules requiring firms to publish the complaints records of their advisers to help "build an overall picture" of individuals, but it has promised to investigate fully any cases that give it cause for concern and says it will only ban...

Another day, another FSA paper...

The FSA is moving "alarmingly close to economic regulation" with its latest proposals on data collection, AIFA said.